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they can't just put a game on their platform, the publisher needs to agree and set up terms of sale - if the publisher is going against what GOG want then it won't be easy to compromise
Steam and even Humble Bundle haven't had a problem with them.
What are you in about, mate? Of course they "don't have a problem" with being in Steam—they have almost all the marketshare!
Humble is a Steam key reseller.
GOG is a completely different, DRM-free storefront.
Sure, Humble has limited marketshare (just like GOG), but with Humble, they just send a batch of keys and wait for money to come back. With GOG, they'd need to support an entirely different storefront for, potentially, the same limited revenue potential they'd get from Humble.
Not at all comparable. And totally reasonable that some publishers/indie devs aren't willing to put their games on GOG. Disappointing, of course, but not hardly surprising.
You can get a DRM-free version of Nine Sols from their store: https://shop.redcandlegames.com/ , if you are trying to gaslight that this is somehow about DRM.
You must be the only person in the gaming world who doesn't know about Red Candle Games and Devotion and how GOG put themselves on display there with their lies about "many gamers" (Devotion is also heavily wishlisted). In contrast, Steam still hosts their previous game, Detention and Nine Sols. If you had Devotion, you still have it, and you can even still access the Devotion Soundtrack. Red Candle Games was quite willing to put Devotion in GOG, but you just keep trying to squeeze whatever plausible "what if" trying to defend GOG in whatever recesses of lack of information there are.
Sorry to offend your religion, buddy. Mine is being devoted to storefronts that don't completely submit to Chinese pressure and propaganda to the extent that they begin insulting our intelligence about "many gamers". Continuing to deny Nine Sols entry while letting entry to nude horse LARPing bestiality does not make me have any confidence in their mission statements anymore, and damn if I spent a lot of time promoting GOG and buying from them before that incident.
The problem is GOG gatekeeping a lot of indies, he even mentions it as a good thing in this very article.